The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong has finally opened and boasts the title of “highest hotel in the world”, taking the title away from Dubai.

Originally located in the Central district, the hotel ceased operation in the beginning of the year 2008.

After three years of disappearance, the hotel is now reborn. Located at the very top of the International Commerce Centre (ICC) in the West Kowloon district and occupying floors 102 to 118.

This stylish and contemporary hotel’s major selling point is the magnificent panoramic view of Hong Kong. Guests will be welcomed into the arrival lobby on the 9th floor before being transported up to the hotel lobby on the 103rd floor where breathtaking views of Victoria Harbour and the iconic Hong Kong skyline greet them.

A 45 year old woman was arrested in Hong Kong for sexually harassing a taxi cab driver. From what I gather, she is a prostitute. From her extensive ‘work experience’, she probably assumed the taxi driver was exactly the type who would offer a cheap ride for a handjob.

Seems that there are still some decent men left out there. Either that or maybe she’s too old and ugly.

Although Government officials tried to calm fears by emphasizing that radiation levels in 41 cities across China remain normal, many Chinese have gone into full panic mode. Staff from multiple branches of the French supermarket chain Carrefour reported that their supplies of salt have been sold out since Thursday morning in Beijing.

Triggered by the belief that salt could prevent radiation-related illnesses and to secure uncontaminated salt sources, shoppers are hoarding as much salt as they can. One customer in the eastern city of Ningbo told the nation’s CCTV that she had purchased a five-year supply to placate her family’s fears of radiation. Another idiot named Michael Zeng, a 21-year-old college student in Beijing, said “it’s always safe to do what the majority are doing.”

Fears of a salt shortage also spread to Hong Kong, where many supermarkets ran out of salt as nervous shoppers stocked up on supplies. In fact, as I checked yesterday afternoon, even soy sauce, other basic cooking condiments and rice have been entirely cleared out from supermarket shelves.

Anyone who has bothered to check Wikipedia would know iodine in iodized salt is ineffective for preventing radiation effects, according to the World Health Organization. It would take 80 tablespoons of salt to make up one prophylactic, or preventative, iodide tablet. Further, only a fraction of China’s salt for consumption comes from the sea, said Song Zhangjing, a spokesman for industry organization the China Salt Association. “In China, most salt are from salt mines.”

In brief, there is no reason to hoard salt at all and those who do are complete fools.Continue reading »

A nude cooking show is set to launch this month on the adult channels in Hong Kong.

26 year old Flora Cheung, a model with no formal culinary training, is the host of Ice Fire Kitchen, which debuts on adult channels in Hong Kong this month. In each 30-minute episode, she picks out ingredients from the city’s famous wet markets, fully dressed. When she gets into the kitchen, she strips down to her birthday suit, slips on a see-through apron and cooks up some dishes.

The show will be broadcast on the Ice Fire channel on NOW TV, Hong Kong Broadband Network and TVB Pay Vision.

For a taste of the show, check out the NSFW trailer and photos after the jump! Continue reading »

Wong Tai Sin Temple is one of the most famous shrines in Hong Kong. Every Chinese New Year, thousands rush towards the temple to burn incense and pray.

This year, the Wong Tai Sin Temple has gone for a revolutionary technological upgrade.

The 90-year-old temple has added a new underground prayer room decked with gold, marble, LED lights and motion detectors. It features a vaulted echo-enhancing ceiling emblazoned with a planetarium-like digital replica of the Hong Kong sky that rotates in accordance with the seasons. Two HK$3 million floor-to-ceiling wall hangings, made of marble and rare gemstones, adorn the entranceway. Worshippers enter the hall and deposit a written prayer before one of 60 statues representing the gods of the Chinese zodiac, which responds with flashing lights and bursts of smoke.

This 10,000-square-feet chamber costed HK$100 million (US$13 million) and took 3 years to complete.

The modernization of the 2,500-year-old religion has inspired both awe and disapproval. Further adding to the controversy is the new prayer hall’s entrance fee (HK$100; HK$50 for seniors), which makes Wong Tai Sin the first prayer facility in Hong Kong to charge admittance. A prayer offering at the temple’s automated statues costs an extra HK$300. Sik Sik Yuen, the Taoist nonprofit organization that runs Wong Tai Sin, says the fees are required for the maintenance of the new hall.

It’s really here. McDonald’s in Hong Kong has launched McWeddings as an official product offering.

I am speechless. I have joked about a McDonald’s wedding reception on many occasions, but that was an idea to make sure no one comes to my wedding. As someone who was born and raised mainly in Hong Kong, I feel really ashamed of having the title of World’s first McWedding attached to the place I live.

After watching this video, the only question I have is whether the woman was from Mainland China or grew up in Hong Kong.

If it was the former, then I am not one bit surprised. Since the explosive economic growth of Mainland China, some Chinese have benefited very well. Simply put, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Only in this case, the rich get absurdly rich. So rich, that they fear nothing. However, their behaviors haven’t improved much…

I must point out that this type of person is still in the minority. Though, when a country’s population is 1.3 billion, even the minority is huge. That’s why I’m not surprised as stories of such people are aplenty.

This is great news for all pervs in Hong Kong or probably the best New Years gift.

So basically, it is legal to put spy cams in your home and video tape guests in the toilet. An example is when your friend takes a major dump in your toilet bowl.

Details can be found in the video below:

I personally think the woman in the video is a total bitch. Calling the cops on her boyfriend sounds pretty retarded considering that they have been together for 6 years and are living together. I really doubt there is much her boyfriend hasn’t seen or touched.

If her boyfriend posted all the videos online or had a massive collection of a lot of other people taking a dump, then, I would be worried.

For all the pervs I guess the biggest obstacle is not getting a spy cam but getting there own home…

As more proof that the demand for luxury goods is strong in Asia, this week, a record price for wine was set in a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong.

Three bottles of Châteaux Lafite-Rothschild 1869 sold for an astounding hammer price of $232,692 a bottle (a total of $698,076). That makes these the most expensive bottles of wine ever sold at auction. The entire sale of treasures direct from the legendary Chateau Lafite brought in a total of $8.4 million, tripling the pre-sale high estimate of $2.5 million.

Every lot was sold, adding to the success of Sotheby’s Hong Kong in maintaining the tenth consecutive 100%-sold wine auction in Asia in the last 18 months. It is only auction house to achieve this record.

The sale featured 284 lots of Lafite, as well as the other chateaux owned by Domaines Baron de Rothschild, all with direct-from-the-cellar perfect provenance.